Probably you have felt that you should not pour old medicines in the water closet or unloadings. This because the medicines can enter into the water supply and cause problems for the persons and the wild fauna.

But it is not possible to throw simply the medicines or prescriptions left unused in the sweeping be. You do not want medicines – and your private sanitary information – to fall on the wrong hands.

To destroy the old medicines (as expired over-the-counter medicines or unused prescriptions) and then to put them in the sweeping is the road to be covered.

Here is how to do:

• Dump of the medicine with his container in a plastic art bag richiudibile. You do not want to throw away medicines in the special containers because there is the risk which persons in drug search, so like children or domestic animals, might find them. Different types of medicines can get mixed in the same purse. It is enough to be sure of using a bag from plastic art that can be hermetically closed, like a model to hinge roll lock.
• You destroy the medicines. To add a little quantity of water for the purse of melting any pills or capsules. Then, to add something that is not a food, like bedstead for cats, shreds from paper, sawing, coffee-grounds, or I dirty. In this way, if the medicines mix falls on the hands (or legs!) of children or animals that will not be able to eat.
• It seals the bag and to throw it in the normal sweeping.
• Before throwing away the containers prescription, removing the labels. After having digested the medicine following the instructions of which above, to throw the container of the medicine in the sweeping. But before doing it, taking the label out and destroying it. He helps this to protect the medical information and to keep it private. You want only your name, address, and other personal information that they show next to the name of the medicine that it is assuming. If it is not possible to remove the label, to take a felt-tip pen and black the own personal data. A pair of prescription of medicines must be eliminated suddenly later they are not more necessary. These should to be thrown, in any case, in the cabinet. If the prescription is one of these, the label or adhesive about the container he must say it.

  You ask your pharmacist for on national prescription the withdrawal of the day. This program allows to carry the medicines left unused in a place where they can be sold in sure way.